History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c73.t1.1.2

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nitya, naimittika, kāmya, vṛddhi-śrāddha (performed on the birth of a son, marriage or similar incident of good luck), sapiṇḍana (sapiṇḍīkaraṇa), pārvaṇa, goṣṭhīśrāddha, śuddhiśrāddha, karmāṅga, daivika, yātrāśrāddha, puṣṭiśrāddha. Explanations of all these are quoted from the Bhaviṣyapurāṇa by the same works. Sapiṇḍana and Pārvaṇa will be described below. Some of the rest not already defined may be briefly explained as follows: The Goṣṭhī-śrāddha ⁸⁵⁹ is one which is performed when a man becomes enthusiastic owing to a talk about śrāddha or when many learned men gather together at a sacred place and, finding it impossible to have separate cooking arrangements for each, pool their resources for collecting śrāddha materials and perform simultaneously śrāddha for the pleasure it affords to themselves and for the gratification of pitṛs The Śuddhi-śrāddha is one where brāhmaṇas are fed when a person undergoes *śuddhi* (purification) after being guilty of some sin or transgression (it is a subsidiary act in a prāyaścitta) That śrāddha is called 'karmāṅga' which is performed at the time of the *Garbhādhāna* rite or at the performance of a soma sacrifice, or at *sīmantonnayana*, *puṃsavana* (it is like Vṛddhiśrāddha).